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An Immodest Proposal for GCC Voting
In light of the "it only gets done if it's paid for", I make the
following proposal.
Charge for voting -- a poll tax, if you will.
That's right -- if I wanted to vote for bug #14468 (which sticks in my
craw at the moment), I could attach a donation to said vote; the votes
would then be weighed in importance by how much money was attached to them.
Whoever fixes the bug gets a "cut" of the attached dollars, with the
rest going into the general GCC fund for wild SC parties and other
administrative purposes.
We could consider it a bounty system, which has proven popular in other
segemnts of the FOSS community.
Let's add money to voting; it's a long-time tradition!
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Scott Robert Ladd
Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com)
Software Invention for High-Performance Computing